This collection of innovative studies represents the first serious academic investigation of 'lifestyle' or 'postmodern' sports, such as snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing.
This collection of innovative studies represents the first serious academic investigation of 'lifestyle' or 'postmodern' sports, such as snowboarding,...
The past decade has seen a tremendous growth in the popularity of activities like skateboarding and snowboarding; sports that have been labelled as 'extreme' or 'lifestyle' and which embody 'alternative' sporting values such as anti-competitiveness, anti-regulation, high risk and personal freedom. The popularity of these activities goes beyond the teenage male youth that the media typify as their main consumers. This book examines the popularity, significance and meaning of lifestyle sport, exploring the sociological significance of these activities, particularly as related to their...
The past decade has seen a tremendous growth in the popularity of activities like skateboarding and snowboarding; sports that have been labelled as...
Written by experienced academics use to teaching the subject, this book will help students and researchers find their way within the diverse field of sport studies. Clear, well researched entries explain the key concepts in the debates surrounding the social significance and social dynamics of sport. Each entry provides clear definitions, relevant examples, up-to-date suggestions for further reading, and informative cross-referencing.
Written by experienced academics use to teaching the subject, this book will help students and researchers find their way within the diverse field ...
This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports -- parkour, surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and others -- and asks whether they continue to pose a challenge to the meaning and experience of 'sport', physical culture and identity in the twenty-first century. The book offers a critique of the main theoretical frameworks with which lifestyle sports are usually understood, including the concepts of 'subculture', 'neo-tribe', 'symbolic community' and 'serious leisure'. Drawing on a series of in-depth, empirical case-studies, it explores a range of key...
This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports -- parkour, surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and others -- a...
Since their emergence in the 1960s, lifestyle sports have experienced unprecedented growth both in terms of participation and in their increased visibility across public and private space. This title explores the changing representation and consumption of lifestyle sport in the 21st century.
Since their emergence in the 1960s, lifestyle sports have experienced unprecedented growth both in terms of participation and in their increased visib...
Within leisure studies there is a growing awareness and intensifying conscience about the potential environmental threat posed by the continued and unmanaged economic growth and development of sport, tourism and leisure. This collection brings together explicit discussions from a range of fields including environmental geography, consumer research, sociology and politics of the increasing relevance and complexities of environmental politics in leisure studies. It provides a snapshot into the wide-ranging debates on the politics of the environment and leisure/sport/tourism and serves as a...
Within leisure studies there is a growing awareness and intensifying conscience about the potential environmental threat posed by the continued and...
Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, from the inclusion of the first action sports to those featuring for the first time in the Tokyo Olympic Games and beyond.
Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, f...
